It's true - I am home-bound for another week and will miss the entire Canadian leg of our current tour...  Stupid tumor.

:(

However, we are glad to have found an excellent drummer to sit in for me for the next week.  Morgan Zwerlein plays with La Troupe Makendal, but we know him back from is days with Boa Constrictor.
It is certainly a great challenge to sit in with a group of musicians who've been playing together for years but Morgan is the man for the job, and I wish him luck and hope he has a good time..  Being me for a week.  Just kidding - hope everyone makes him feel right at home.


*There's a correction to the last entry - Youtube seems not to have been able to handle the Adventure Violence video, so I replaced it with the Vimeo version.  Now, check it out and see that John did a good job.
See you later,
David

We’re plugging away at booking our fall tour in the US.  That’s right folks, we’ll be going out again before we settle in to work on our next record at the end of the year.  That tour should see us focusing mostly on the Western half of these united states, but we’re still working on it (still trying to hook up with some good bands too, and we’re open to suggestions if you got them…) so we probably won’t be posting those dates till we’re done with Les Claypool next month.  In the mean time,  here’s an amazing clip of Howlin’ Wolf playing his most famous (?) tune, Smokestack Lightning...
 
What a performer!! -David

there were three white owls in a broken down old room behind an auditoreum. the person who lived at the building was trying to get them out so we could sleep in the room without us being attacked and pecked at by the owls.  they were beautiful and we were ok with not sleeping in the room but she was insistent. she would lure the owls down, and then catch them and wring their necks one by one. the last owl was large and puffy and looked like a muppet.  we really didnt want her to kill the owls. their necks would be red and irritated from the strangling.
strange things happen on tour sometimes and you have to be careful where you sleep.

heres something a little more upbeat.  enjoy this performance by buffy saint marie.  she was a family favorite.  we still have old records of hers with notes on them from my uncle who i never knew.
-greg